Maxine Waters Quotes
I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.
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I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
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I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
